The brother of President Hamid Karzai on Thursday dropped out of Afghanistan s election and endorsed former foreign minister Zalmai Rassoul, an announcement widely seen as signalling the current leader s preferred successor.
The first major move in the election campaign before voting on April 5 came as a US air strike in the east of the country accidental..... Read more

The United States is suspending military cooperation with Russia because of its actions in Ukraine, the Pentagon said in a statement Monday, urging Moscow to "de-escalate the crisis."
"We have, in light of recent events in Ukraine, put on hold all military-to-military engagements between the United States and Russia," Defense Departmen..... Read more

Warning that it was "on the brink of disaster," Ukraine put its military on high alert Sunday and appealed for international help to avoid what it feared was the possibility of a wider invasion by Russia.
Outrage over Russia´s military moves mounted in world capitals, with US Secretary of State John Kerry calling on President Vladimir Puti..... Read more

Britain's communications spy agency GCHQ and the US National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted and stored images from webcams used by millions of Yahoo users, the Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday.
GCHQ files leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reportedly revealed how the Optic Nerve programme collected still images of webcam chats regard..... Read more

A soldier in Indian Kashmir shot dead five of his colleagues in a military camp before turning the gun on himself, an army spokesman told on Thursday.
"The soldier ran amok, killing five others before shooting himself dead in the camp in Ganderbal district," lieutenant colonel Narinder Nahar Joshi said. The soldier was part of a counter-insurgen..... Read more

US President Barack Obama on Friday offered his "strong support" for the protection of Tibetans' human rights in China as he defied protests from Beijing to meet the Dalai Lama.
With China warning that the meeting would derail ties between the world's two largest economies, Obama took care to avoid any trappings of an official visit, receiving t..... Read more